Re: [Nolug] 64 bit machine from Manuel Lora on 2005-02-11 (nolugarchives)

From: Manuel Lora <vanguardist_at_cox.net>
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 17:48:51 -0500
Message-Id: <20050211224944.ZNDO20686.lakermmtao07.cox.net@smtp.east.cox.net>

A friend of mine just finished assembling his AMD64.

Check out his blog:

http://volsung.gotdns.org/blog/

He wrote quite extensively about hardware issues. He uses gentoo on it.

>
> From: Paul Taylor <pltaylor@gmail.com>
> Date: 2005/02/11 Fri PM 05:30:41 EST
> To: nolug@nolug.org
> Subject: [Nolug] 64 bit machine
>
> Tomorrow after work I am going to start assembling my new AMD Athlon64 3400+
> machine. MSI motherboard with nforce 250GB chipset, nvidea fx-5500 video card
> 512 of low latency ram, eide hdd, dvd-rom, dvd+/- rw.
>
> Which distro? Mandrake, SuSE, ?? Anyone have any experiences in this
> realm that they would like to pass along? Pitfalls to avoid?
>
> I would appreciate hearing.
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> Paul
> --
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